Thursday 30 June 2011

FROM LANGDON TO LYDDEN

After Tuesdays storm,wednesday dawned clean and clear,and garden chores done a visit to Langdon Cliffs was the order of the day.
APPROACHING STORM AT THE HOE.
Marbled whites were plentiful in Langdon Hole,they are an impressively marked butterfly,on top and on the underside.

MARBLED WHITE

MARBLED WHITE underside.

SMALL TORTOISHELL

RINGLET
SMALL COPPER

PYRAMIDAL ORCHID

A beautiful morning at LYDDEN DOWN with fair weather cumulus bubbling up and a fair sprinkling of the first CHALK HILL BLUES of the year.
CHALK HILL BLUE.
The small elm copse at the top of the reserve which has supported a few white letter hairstreaks in recent years appears to be suffering a bad dose of the dreaded dutch elm disease,hopefully enough will survive to keep the colony going.

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